Valise



Patented Apr. 27, 1886.

N. @FRENCH VALISE, &o.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

N ATHANIEL GRANT FRENCH, OF NORWAY, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN` MENTS, TO SAID NATHANIEL G. FRENCH AND NEVVELL VASHBURN BRAINERD, OF IVATERVILLE, MAINE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,567, dated April 27, 1886.

Application filed January 25, 1886. Serial No. 189,554. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: extends into one of the notches thereof. This o Be it known that I, NATHANIEL GRANT latch is forced back out of the said notch by FRENCH, of Norway, in the county of Oxford means of a small cam, c, arranged as shown, and State of Maine, have invented a new and which, pivoted in the case, is provided on the 5 useful Improvement in Extension Valises or outer face thereof with a handle, d, for turn- Portmanteaus; and I do hereby declare the .ing it, (the said cam.) In rear ofthe latchEis same to be described in the following speciiia bolt, G, to be operated or moved lengthwise cation and represented in the accompanying by a key inserted in a key-hole, f, and upon drawings, of whicha stationary stud, g, within the lock-case. An

1o Figure l is an end elevation, and Fig. 2 a arched spring, F, arranged between the catch longitudinal, median, and vertical section, and and bolt and bearing at its crown against the 6o Fig. 3 is a transverse and median section, of catch and at its ends upon the bolt, serves to a valise or portmanteau provided with my inmove the bolt in one direction laterally of it vention. Fig. 4 is a rear elevation, and Fig. and the latch in the opposite way.

15 5 a transverse section, of one of the two racks Then the latch is in engagement with the affixed to the ends of the body of the valise. Vrack, if the bolt be thrown rearwardly, the Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the lock and its projection or hcadz' of such bolt will be caused case as applied to each end of the cover and to enter a notch, k, in the latch, and will not to co-operate with one of the racks in fastenonly stop the bolt from further backward mo- 2o ing the cover to the body of the valise or porttion, but will lock the latch in position. On

manteau. Fig. 7 isa top View ofthe cam c and retraction of the bolt a tooth, Z, projecting from 7o its operative handle d, hereinafter described. the lockcase, by entering a notch, m, in the My invention relates to the class of exten-` bolt,will serve to hold the bolt from being acsion-valises that consist of a trough-shaped cidentally shot forward. On the bolt being 25 body and a like-shaped cover, the body exdriven forward by the key the latch will be tending up within the mouth of the cover, free to be operated or moved back by its cam. and being provided at its ends with racks to The latches of the locks may be thrown out engage withlatches or locking devices applied of engagement with the racks by properly to the cover. turning the cams by means of their handles. 5o One such valise is shown in the drawings, From the above it will be seen that on the A bein@ its bod and B its cover. cover beine either drawn u )ward or forced 8o b y1 a I In carrying out my invention there is condownward upon the body of the valise to any nected to the outer side of each end of the desirable extent such cover may be held in body a toothed or notched rack, C, provided position by the racks and latches alone, and

35 with a fillet or rib, (t, extending lengthwise when the bolts are forward such latches may of it and projecting from'its rear side, such be operated by their cams; but on the bolts 85 llet or rib being against the end of the body, being retracted thelatches will be locked relaso as to cause the rack to be parallel to it at a tively to the racks. short distancefrom it. This filleted or ribbed I do not claim extension-valises provided 4o rack is fastened to the end of the body by rivwith locking or latching devices, as shown in ets b going through them. Each rack enters the United States Patents Nos. 281,268 and 9o a suitable lock-case, l), clasping and fastened 287,473, there being material differences beto the next adjacent end of the cover, the said tween such devices and those hereinbefore delock-case being properly constructed to slide scribed, as I have to engage with such rack a 4 5 rectilinearly upon the rack when the cover is -hooked latch and to such a cam a spring and either being raised or lowered on the body. a slide-bolt arranged and to operate differently Vithin each lock-case there is a vibratory from any of the latching and locking devices hooked latch, E, that is pivoted within the of the racks of said patents. case, and, when in engagement with the rack, I clai1n- In an extension valise or portmanteau, as of the cover, and adapted to operate together described, having, serrated or toothed racks and with the next adjacent rack, C, substanflXed to each of the opposite ends of its body tially as set forth.

A, the combination of the hooked latch E, its NATHANIEL GRANT FRENCH. 5 arched spring F, cam c, and its handle d, and Witnesses:

sliding` and notched bolt G, arranged with AUGUSTUS H. WALKER,

each other and in a case, D7 applied to one end W. L. HAsKELL.. 

